Saint-Ex, by Willie Gibson

Saint-Ex

by Willie Gibson

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	1.	Wind Sand and Stars 05:15
	2.	Dawn Flight 02:13
	3.	Cap Juby 01:48
	4.	Black Pebbles on a White Plateau 02:58
	5.	July '44 06:35

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Wind Sand And Stars is a wonderful and poetic book by the enigmatic author and aviator, Antoine de Saint Exupéry and was the inspiration of this EP – an aerial voyage through the elements realised by Willie Gibson in his modular synth-based studio out in the wilds of Cambridgeshire.

WG: ‘For me there is some sort of similarity between operating a light aircraft and patching and crafting sounds with the modular, with precision handling and attention to detail. Indeed, I came upon both by much the same route.
Having produced a great deal of music using soft synths, I needed to get ‘hands on’ and build my modular set up which has evolved over the past seven years. Prior to that I had had a passion for flying and after a long period of MS Flight Sim, learned to fly, eventually gaining my private pilot’s licence’.

Saint-Ex was conceived as a single recorded work but in five defined sections.

In the opening Wind Sand And Stars, we take off on our flight and face the three elemental divinities: mountain, sea and storm.

Once airborne and with the aircraft trimmed, there is time for reflection in the peaceful air of Dawn Flight, memories are stirred of an idyllic childhood in Southern France.

Jumping ahead to the often dangerous flights delivering mail over North Africa and the Sahara towards the staging post of Cap Juby, we experience mirages and sandstorms.

Black Pebbles On A White Plateau opens side B of the vinyl album. We find Saint-Ex in desolate north Africa having put down on a high ‘mesa’ of white stone. With its hundred foot near vertical sides it cannot have ever been visited by man. On walking around the landing area he discovers first a single shiny black pebble and gradually more similar pebbles. ‘A sheet stretched beneath the stars can gather only stardust’. We are dwarfed by the universe.

Saint-Exupéry went missing over the Mediterranean on a routine reconnaissance flight in July ‘44 – neither the aircraft nor his body were ever recovered.

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released March 1, 2019

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